Friday essay: Contextualising Rooneygate

Dotmund has two mottos that he lives by. The first of them pertains largely to pork pies and needn’t detain us any further here. The second is that there’s an historical precedent for virtually anything that ever happens if you just look hard enough. This could be the wisest thing he’s ever thought, although that’s not a particularly high watermark.

Today, Twohundredpercent tries to give some such perspective to the latest Wayne Rooney saga.